Re: staroffice7 upgrade

Rich Teer wrote:
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, dick wrote:

Solaris 10 comes with staroffice-7 bundled. I guess it's not upgradable other
then by bying a license for staroffice-8?
Or make the switch to OOo? But that's not an *integrated* package.

Correct on all counts, although some of us (myself included) are trying
to persuade Sun into include StarOffice 8 with Update 3. No commitment
yet, alas...


Sun cannot give away everything for free can they? MS Word is not bundled with MS-Windoz by default as far as I am aware - at least Sun provide StarOffice 7 in the O/S distribution by default. I upgraded to 8 because it is very inexpensive and provided the fixes/features I required - comes with Windoz/Solaris(Sparc/x86)/Linux platforms - seems pretty good value to me for 4 different platforms.

Providing Sun Studio FOC was a sensible move as this encourages development on the platform (and is a very good compiler). StarOffice 7 does its job if you are using the WP infrequently, if you are doing more WP work then your options are to upgrade to SO8 or OpenOffice or seek an alternative i.e. Latex. Seems pretty fair and sensible to me - and no I do not work for Sun.

I would say of greater significance is whether Adobe could be convinced that Solaris x86 is worth the compile time/release for Acrobat 7.0.x. I would go so far to say I would be prepared to pay Adobe a few bucks to download a Acrobat 7.0 Reader on Solaris x86!

John.
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